Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distribution of records produced by a given algorithm should be checked to see that this will not occur . |
| 2 | Caterina judged then , as she watched Rosa pin her hair , that the ease with which she , Caterina , won applause — when she danced and sang the cherry song , or strewed flowers before the host in the procession , making a little reverence to the monstrance on every third step backwards — was undeserved , the effect of some trick she did not want to perform but that came to her naturally from some evil in her , the same evil that had inspired her bad thoughts of Tommaso and prevented her doing as her sister , her beloved sister , wanted . |
| 3 | And world market prices also tend to fall because these erm sort of protectionist programmes are often too successful , so not only do we reach self sufficiency , but you reach the status of net exporter . |
| 4 | Although Bouton and his collaborators have failed to establish context-specificity after simple conditioning , they would not want to claim that such an effect can never be seen — there is ample evidence from experiments using rather different training procedures that a change of context can produce a performance deficit . |
| 5 | ‘ I do not want to labour the failures of the past but I do want to emphasise that many of the problems that are now being tackled are the legacy of past management failure . ’ |
| 6 | In 1865 several experimenters were on the brink of discovering the important principle of self-excitation , and early in 1866 he presented a paper to the Royal Society on ‘ A New and Powerful Generator of Dynamic Electricity ’ , but failed to realize that practical self-excitation was within his grasp . |
| 7 | Yet most would want to agree that such belief ought not to be contradictory in any way ( while bearing in mind the distinction between paradox and contradiction referred to at the end of Chapter 6 ) . |
| 8 | IBM will no doubt eagerly want to see if any other big names follow WordPerfect 's example . |
| 9 | She could no doubt be taught to sew or clean things . |
| 10 | All will be meticulously examined to see whether any recorded the planting of the two bombs in litter bins . |
| 11 | Willy agreed to go as long as he was given a return fare . |
| 12 | It 's an electro-mechanical device , with contacts and so on that tend to corrode and all the rest of it , and that sort of thing can be very conveniently replaced by a small microcomputer . |
| 13 | In the late morning he locked his safe , checked to see that all of his desk drawers were secured , and shut down his terminal . |
| 14 | Reports tend to confirm that most of the fish have completed spawning activities and seem ready to feed . |
| 15 | Mosley revolted over the wrong crisis , for he failed to see that considerable social and economic reform would result from a Second World War , a conflagration which he bitterly opposed and which led to his internment in 1940 . |
| 16 | A shareholders action committee has been formed to see if any value can be obtained . |
| 17 | We were treated as an accepted channel of communication with the mass of independent objectors and were often the only other organization apart from the local councils ' consortium whom Michael Barnes asked to comment when dramatic announcements were made . |
| 18 | If the single European market can be established and made to work as that common market that has been talked about for the past 30 years , it will be a considerable achievement , but it will not be easy . |
| 19 | They had tried to head these off , but because they could slip into the lanes and wynds of the town , this had proved difficult , Ramsay interrupted to demand whether one of these fugitives had been a tall man in shirt and breeches ; but they said that in the darkness they could not tell . |
| 20 | She was irritated to find that one essential item at least was missing , and made a mental note to have someone telephone for it immediately . |
| 21 | The arguments in Beyond the Pleasure Principle which sought to establish that all organisms aim at death , a return to the state of inanimate matter , were admitted by Freud to be ones which could be overthrown by later biological research . |
| 22 | It provides a way of helping to dismantle and correct oversimplified explanations where generalisations have been made from particular cases — or even on the basis of a single example — which clearly will not stand up to broader comparative investigation . |
| 23 | The difficulties tend to come when these broad aims have to be translated into specific objectives for local areas of the Polytechnic , and in particular into detailed forward planning of student numbers . |
| 24 | The Dragoons hammered their sword hilts against doors and window shutters , demanding to know whether any British or Prussian soldiers were billeted within . |
| 25 | And we are fascinated to know that this approach has been shown to be so effective in a remote part of the Far East where our cassettes are transported on the back of a motorcycle ! |
| 26 | I would be fascinated to know if these yards of generally disagreeable reviews will in fact sell copies . |
| 27 | The train lover was fascinated to find that most journeys are undertaken on the railway because Chinese roads are not up to Western standards . |
| 28 | In the first place they may want to do no more than ensure that the Constitution is not altered casually or carelessly or by subterfuge or implication ; they may want to secure that this important document is not lightly tampered with , but solemnly , with due notice and deliberation , consciously amended . |
| 29 | Mr Coates 's replacement , Jonathan Davie , thinks that , in Britain , the firm is well placed to benefit if share-trading volumes continue at the pace of the first quarter of this year . |
| 30 | So if you want to see that old mother of yours it 'll have to be by road . ’ |